Mycobacterium abscessus outbreak after rhytidectomies performed in an outpatient surgery center

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Agarwal, Anurag ^a   Maloney, Richard W ^a  

^a Aesthetic Surgery Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURGICENTERS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051525361     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31821ef29d     Document Type: Note

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